Trump Administration Forces Labour to Drop Apple Security Back Door
Labour has been forced to drop plans to demand Apple break the end-to-end encryption used to secure iPhone users’ private data. A huge infringement of the right to privacy by the government…
After backlash from privacy campaigners as well as Trump and JD Vance, Yvette Cooper has been made to withdraw the order she made back in February. Trump’s director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said:
“Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with our partners in the UK, alongside @POTUS and @VP, to ensure Americans’ private data remains private and our Constitutional rights and civil liberties are protected. As a result, the UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached on our civil liberties.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been on Trump’s good side since gifting him a custom made gold Apple plaque earlier this month. Time to force Labour to cave in on the free speech-censoring Online Safety Bill…